Coulter: Don't blame Romney

We spent billions of dollars and billions of words on an election to switch from President Obama, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House to President Obama, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House.

Every election predictor was wrong, except one: Incumbents usually win.

Republicans have taken out a sitting president only once in the last century, and that was in 1980 when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter. Sadly, Reagan’s record remains secure.

The Democrats ran up against the incumbency problem in 2004. The landslide election for Democrats in 2006 suggests that Americans were not thrilled with Republicans around the middle of the last decade. And yet in 2004, President George W. Bush beat John Kerry more handily than Obama edged past Romney this week.

Democratic candidate John Kerry won 8 million more votes than Al Gore did in 2000, and he still couldn’t win. All the Democrats’ money, media, Bush Derangement Syndrome and even a demoralized conservative base couldn’t trump the power of incumbency in 2004.

After supporting Mitt Romney in 2008, some of you may recall, I ran off with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie midway through Obama’s first term for precisely that reason: The near-impossibility of beating an incumbent president. Christie seemed like the kind of once-in-a-lifetime star who could pull a Reagan upset against an incumbent president.

But I was wrong. Romney was the perfect candidate, and he was the president this country needed right now. It’s less disheartening that a president who wrecked American health care, quadrupled gas prices, added $6 trillion to the national debt and gave us an 8 percent unemployment rate can squeak out re-election than that America will never have Romney as our president.

Indeed, Romney is one of the best presidential candidates the Republicans have ever fielded. Blaming the candidate may be fun, but it’s delusional and won’t help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

Part of the reason incumbents win is that they aren’t forced to spend half the election year being battered in primaries. Obama started running anti-Romney ads in Ohio before the Republican primaries were even over. Noticeably, Romney’s negatives were sky-high in Ohio, but not in demographically similar states like Pennsylvania.

One of Obama’s first acts in office was to bail out the auto industry to help him in states he’d need in the upper Midwest, such as Michigan and Ohio. He visited Ohio nearly 50 times, while not visiting lots of other states even once. Obama was working Ohio from the moment he became president. Meanwhile, Romney didn’t wrap up the primaries until the end of May.

A little less time beating up our candidate in the primaries so that he could have started campaigning earlier would have helped. In this regard, please remember that no mere House member is ever going to be elected president. Most of them harm their political careers by running. (Where’s Thaddeus McCotter these days? Michele Bachmann is fighting for her political life.)

Please stop running. You’re distracting us from settling on an actual nominee.

No one can be blamed for the hurricane that took the news off the election, abruptly halting Romney’s momentum, but Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock can be blamed on two very specific people: Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.

The last two weeks of the campaign were consumed with discussions of women’s “reproductive rights,” not because of anything Romney did, but because these two idiots decided to come out against abortion in the case of rape and incest.

After all the hard work intelligent pro-lifers have done in changing the public’s mind about a subject the public would rather not think about at all, these purist grandstanders came along and announced insane positions with no practical purpose whatsoever, other than showing off.

While pro-lifers in the trenches have been pushing the abortion positions where 90 percent of the country agrees with us — such as bans on partial birth abortion, and parental and spousal notification laws — Akin and Mourdock decided to leap straight to the other end of the spectrum and argue for abortion positions that less than 1 percent of the nation agrees with.

In order to be pro-life badasses, they gave up two easy-win Republican Senate seats.

No law is ever going to require a woman to bear the child of her rapist. Yes, it’s every bit as much a life as an unborn child that is not the product of rape. But sentient human beings are capable of drawing gradations along a line.

Just because I need iron to live doesn’t mean I have to accept 100,000 milligrams, which will kill me. If we give the guy who passed bad checks a prison furlough, that doesn’t mean we have to give one to Willie Horton. I like a tablespoon of sugar in my coffee, but not a pound.

The overwhelming majority of people — including me — are going to say the law shouldn’t force someone who has been raped to carry the child. On the other hand, abortion should be illegal in most other cases.

Is that so hard for Republicans to say?

Purist conservatives are like idiot hipsters who can’t like a band that’s popular. They believe that a group with any kind of a following can’t be a good band, just as show-off social conservatives consider it a mark of integrity that their candidates — Akin, Mourdock, Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell — take wildly unpopular positions and lose elections.

It was the same thing with purist libertarian Barry Goldwater, who — as you will read in my book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama” — nearly destroyed the Republican Party with his pointless pursuit of libertarian perfection in his vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I like a band that sells NO albums because it proves they have too much integrity to sell out.

We have a country to save. And just as the laws of elections generally mean the incumbent president wins, they also mean the party out of the White House typically stages a big comeback in midterm elections. BIG. Don’t blow it with purist showoffs next time, Republicans.

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Our president used the word and immediately appoligized when he realized what he had said. In my opinion it shows the evolution of what we as a society finds acceptable. It also shows the ability to change one's behavior.

Then of course you have this vile hack Ann, who could care less who she offends. In fact, she made it perfectly clear that the conscious of society could pound sand. Hacks such as Ann, Limbaugh, Hannity ect. strive for publicity, good or bad. Sadly, hate sells and there are many gullible buyers.

Ann and the rest of the Republican media members (Rush, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly) need only to look in the miror for someone to blame. They have created an niche industry out of basically scaring otherwise center/right Republicans into far right positions that are unelectable. Their stated goal of "protecting our freedoms" and "watching out for you" are simply covers. Their only real goal is to make you watch/listen/buy their products so that they can make money. Why people continue to spend their time and money on them is beyond me. They take a sliver of truth and blow it up into conspiracy theories. They never need to actually prove anything since they never run for any office. The problem is they have actually worked too well. Instead of simply staying in their own little world making money for themselves, they have now spread into mainstream Republican primaries. The big, big problem with this is that otherwise good candidates are drowned out by these far right politicians who are propped up by the Conservative media. Honestly the big loser in this is the country. As someone who leans Democrat, I miss the centrist Republicans.

If those 42 points were "accepted" truths BO should have won by 10 percent margin instead of 2.

Well, I hope you are right citizen, about running from the truth. Because this administration is going to be doing some fancy footwork over the next 4 years, and without Hillary or Bill leading. I am not sure what they will be doing. Politics makes for strange bed fellows, as someone once said.

And citizen, do you think BO can score a double bogey with this mulligan?... please not another snowman.

"On the other hand, abortion should be illegal in most other cases. Is that so hard for Republicans to say?"

Let's look at that closely, Your argument for infringing the rights of women to control their own bodies and forcing your religious views on them is a religious moral argument that life begins at conception, but how can you reconcile a rape exception to that belief? Life starts at conception except in cases of rape, holy cow, a female Akin..........

"— as you will read in my book, “
Then we get to the real meme. A soon to be "has been" struggling for relevancy to feed her wallet and ego.............

" Don’t blow it with purist showoffs next time, Republicans.
Yes indeed, lie about your actual positions, cause it worked so well this time,..........genius, I tells ya, ..........genius!